AI for Social Good: Learning and Planning in the End-to-End, Data-to-Deployment Pipeline

Prof. Milind Tambe

University of Southern California 

17/04/2019

Room 0.19/0.20, IST – Pavilhão de Informática II, Alameda | 13:30H

Abstract

With the maturing of AI and multiagent systems research, we have a
tremendous opportunity to direct these advances towards addressing
complex societal problems. I will focus on the problems of public safety
and security, wildlife conservation and public health in low-resource
communities, and present research advances in multiagent systems to
address one key cross-cutting challenge: how to strategically deploy our
limited intervention resources in these problem domains. I will discuss
the importance of conducting this research via building the full data
to field deployment end-to-end pipeline rather than just building
machine learning or planning components in isolation. Results from our
deployments from around the world show concrete improvements over the
state of the art. In pushing this research agenda, we believe AI can
indeed play an important role in fighting social injustice and improving
society.

Bio

Milind Tambe is Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor in Engineering
at the University of Southern California(USC) and the Founding
Co-Director of CAIS, the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in
Society, where his research focuses on advancing AI and multiagent
systems research for Social Good. He is recipient of the IJCAI
(International Joint Conference on AI) John McCarthy Award, ACM/SIGAI
Autonomous Agents Research Award from AAMAS (Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systems Conference), AAAI (Association for Advancement of
Artificial Intelligence) Robert S Engelmore Memorial Lecture award,
INFORMS Wagner prize, the Rist Prize of the Military Operations Research
Society, the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland
security award, International Foundation for Agents and Multiagent
Systems influential paper award; he is a fellow of AAAI and ACM. He has
also received meritorious Commendation from the US Coast Guard and LA
Airport Police, and Certificate of Appreciation from US Federal Air
Marshals Service for pioneering real-world deployments of security
games. Prof. Tambe has also co-founded a company based on his research,
Avata Intelligence , where he serves as the director of research. Prof.
Tambe received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie
Mellon University.

Venue:

1.30PM Room 0.19/0.20, IST – Pavilhão de Informática II, Alameda